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Feminine Ending, A

  • Sarah Treem
  • Full Length Play, Dark Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 3M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573652356

A Feminine Ending is a gentle, bittersweet comedy about a girl who knows what she wants but not quite how to get it. Her parents are getting divorced, her fiancé is almost famous, her first love reappears, and there's a lot of noise in her head but none of it is music. Until the end.

  • Full Length Play
  • Dark Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Large Stage, Professional Theatre
Having recently graduated from a major conservatory, and with a rocker boyfriend on the brink of stardom, aspiring composer Amanda Blue's "extraordinary life" seems to be all mapped out. But when she's called home to answer her mother's distress call about a [marriage in crisis/marital crisis], Amanda's grand plan starts to unravel.

A Feminine Ending
 is a bittersweet new play about dreams deferred, loves lost and learning to trust a woman's voice in a man's world.

REVIEWS:

"Ending is a promising beginning...the playwright has a sense of humor that brings to mind a budding Wendy Wassertein and a liberated sense of form that evokes a junior Paula Vogel."

 Los Angeles Times

"Darkly comic...has undeniable wit."

 New York Post

"Appealingly outlandish humor."

 The New York Times

"Courageous. The 90-minute piece swerves with nerve and naivete. Sarah Treem has a voice all her own."

 Newsday

Premiere Production: A Feminine Ending premiered in New York City at Playwrights Horizons in October 2007 under the direction of Blair Brown.
  • Casting: 3M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Ensemble cast, Non-Traditional casting

  • AMANDA - Mid 20s, oboist, aspiring composer.
    JACK - Mid 20s, singer, up-and-coming pop star.
    KIM - Early 50s, Amanda's mother. Homemaker.
    DAVID - Early 50s, Amanda's father. Insurance salesman.
    BILLY - Mid 20s, Postman.
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    Having recently graduated from a major conservatory, and with a rocker boyfriend on the brink of stardom, aspiring composer Amanda Blue's "extraordinary life" seems to be all mapped out. But when she's called home to answer her mother's distress call about a [marriage in crisis/marital crisis], Amanda's grand plan starts to unravel.

    A Feminine Ending
     is a bittersweet new play about dreams deferred, loves lost and learning to trust a woman's voice in a man's world.

    $24.95